April 29, 2018

Mimi Whitefield, Miami HeraldPhoto Credit: Alejandro Ernesto/AP

When Miguel Díaz-Canel was elevated to the presidency of Cuba's Council of State last week, a group of more diverse politicians — many not born or who were children at the time of the 1959 Cuban Revolution — joined him in high-level positions on the council.

Díaz-Canel's selection as Cuba's new president was the beginning of a generational shift in power as Cuba starts to address the inevitable march of time and the thinning ranks of "historicos" who fought in the revolution.